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Spreading the French message
Author: Tracy Phillips When the new Franco-Cypriot School opened in Aglandjia, Nicosia in September, President Demetris Christofias hailed it as “an investment in education” and “a great investment in...
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Vindication for EOKA ‘traitors’
Author: Poly Pantelides AT THE age of 71, and more than 50 years after the event, Petrou Panagi Stylianou still cries whenever she talks about her father’s brutal murder by masked men beating him...
View ArticlePaedo trial
THE TRIAL date for a 40-year-old father from Ayia Napa facing charges of rape, incest and indecent assault of his three children has been set for February 6 in Larnaca by the criminal court. The court...
View ArticleSuspects sought
POLICE ARE looking for four people in connection with a jewellery robbery that took place on December 6 in the Nicosia district. The jewellery owner reported to police yesterday that three women and...
View ArticleCarpark mugging
A WOMAN was mugged as she parked her car outside her house on Friday night in Orounta village in the Nicosia district, with the robber making off with her handbag and all its contents. According to the...
View ArticleCard scam
THE COMPANY handling card transactions on the island, JCC Payment Systems, yesterday warned businesses of a group of scammers stealing personal data from clients by pretending to be JCC employees....
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Multi-lingual Santa Claus is coming to town
Author: Bejay Browne A FULLTIME Santa’s grotto has been set up for the first time in Paphos and is welcoming children of all nationalities until January.The grotto, at the Paphos Mall, is a...
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State asks SGOs to show responsibility, and hand over cash
Author: Stefanos Evripidou THE GOVERNMENT yesterday called on semi-state organisations (SGOs) to show a sense of responsibility to the state by agreeing to short-term loans that would put €200m into...
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Tales from the Coffeeshop: We have taken a battering from the EU, and been...
Author: Patroclos THE COMRADE was in top form this week on his visit to Brussels, bad-mouthing our partners, slamming the EU, expressing disgust for the thieving markets and of course blaming...
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Orphanides puts memorandum blame squarely on president
Author: Makarios Drousiotis The former Governor of the Central Bank Athanasios Orphanides has been made a scapegoat by President Christofias and AKEL for the economic problems currently facing the...
View ArticleOur View: Why is OEV capitulating to AKEL’s anti-business agenda?
AS IF the desperate conditions under which businesses are currently operating were not bad enough, they also have to cope with additional pressure put on them by a labour minister who thinks she is...
View ArticleSmoking ban has been good for business
Author: Peter Stevenson THE IMPLEMENTATION of the smoking ban nearly three years ago has had no adverse economic effect on profits in the catering and tourist industries, according to a study by the...
View ArticleCyprus’ EU presidency, a job well done
Author: Stefanos Evripidou DEPUTY MINISTER for European Affairs Andreas Mavroyiannis yesterday hailed the “tangible and significant results” achieved by the Cyprus EU presidency in the last six...
View ArticleHistoric forestry college to admit last students
Author: Daphne Vrahimi THE CYPRUS Forestry College which has trained thousands of forestry officials over the past 60 years will close down next year, the ministry of agriculture announced...
View ArticleOlder women most common victims of domestic violence
Author: Stefanos Evripidou MORE THAN a quarter of women in Cyprus have suffered some form of domestic violence, according to the first national study carried out on violence in the family. Based on...
View ArticleBank of Cyprus urged to change board structure
Author: Elias Hazou THE CENTRAL Bank has called on the island’s largest lender to re-jig its board so that no independent director serves for more than nine years, as part of a drive to improve...
View ArticleDivisions over pension provisions
THERE appears to be a disagreement between the government and international lenders over a provision concerning the calculation of civil service pensions that is set to change as part of the island’s...
View ArticleIn latest poll, Anastasiades deemed most honest and popular leader
Author: Stefanos Evripidou MORE THAN half the public believe the government should sign the memorandum with the troika while seven in ten are not happy with President Demetris Christofias’ handling of...
View ArticleOrphanides closes 11 branches
Author: Elias Hazou ORPHANIDES Supermarkets’ hopes for a reprieve appeared to have been dashed yesterday after its main creditors reportedly rejected the appointment of an administrator to oversee the...
View ArticleOur View: Refusal to budge on 13th salaries has prompted panicked begging
THE PERMANENT secretary of the finance ministry, Christos Patsalides made no secret of the desperate situation the government finds itself in during yesterday’s House finance committee meeting. He said...
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